Re: building pine from debs
All right, that did it!
I had tried direct compilation previously but not with slx, so somewhere
it was complaining and I didn't look further into it.
Thanks, now I can put mutt back where it belongs and go to bed with a
clear conscience :-) <yawn>
PS: I'd _still_ like to know why those debs didn't work in the first
place...
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote:
>
> I didn't play with the debs.
> I just went to: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/
> and downloaded: pine4.32.tar.gz
>
> Use: tar -xzvf pine4.32.tar.gz
> cd pine4.32
> ./build slx
>
> In a few minutes Pine 4.32 was built!!! As "root" I copied
> the pine4.32/bin/pine executable to /usr/local/bin and I was
> done. No patches were needed. Also worked on SuSE 7.0
>
> --
> Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
> chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 & FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote:
>
> ->Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives.
> ->Here it is
> ->(it's pine 3-96)
> ->
> ->
> ->apt-get source -b pine
> ->
> -><fetching data...OK>
> -><compiling...OK>
> ->
> ->and then:
> ->
> ->install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin
> ->install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory
> ->make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error 1
> ->make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pine-3.96M'
> ->make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2
> ->Build command 'cd pine-3.96M && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
> ->
> ->
> ->Thanks for any help, I don't like mutt that much (besides, I'm used to
> ->pine:)
> ->Romain
> ->
> ->
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